Posted 13 October 2017 - 06:41 PM

sabremike

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The fact that they have pro-rel is the reason the KHL is a much better league than the NHL and why European basketball leagues are so much better than the NBA. Seriously, the people pushing pro-rel are the people who paid like $50 for an NASL franchise and want a route to parlay that into an MLS team. It's ridiculous. The blame on MLS is really pissing me off because the players in the league from other CONCACAF nations who are beating the shit out of us don't seem to be hurt by playing in an "inferior" league. Leave pro-rel to Tinfoil Ted and his cult.

Posted 14 October 2017 - 12:27 PM

Posted 16 October 2017 - 09:01 AM

juberish

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The MLS owners/shareholders/franchisees/etc. would have to agree with it, and it is not in their self-interest to do so.

Yeah yeah, we know.... and I'm personally not the biggest pro\rel advocate, I'm just seeing an opportunity for the case to be made that we should adopt more of a standard FIFA format (the schedules, the pay to play, free agency, single entity, pro\rel, etc).

There's some who think the anti-trust concerns are compelling and perhaps owners will want to get ahead of the change before it's court-ordered. MLS owners are very much aware of how leagues and federations are run overseas and many of them own European teams. The model can't be that bad if all the world's richest business people want in.